Architecture and design Quote by Jan Gehl

For too long, politicians have pretended to be bystanders to this cost of living crisis. But the truth is that city government has the…

— Zohran Mamdani

People make a city, it's not the other way round.

— Varun Sharma

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take…

— Joseph Rykwert

You cannot live in the best city in the world and have people living on the streets.

— Sadiq Khan

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest…

— Jaime Lerner

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

— Cleve Jones

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

— Geoffrey West

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

— Jaime Lerner

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

— David Byrne